Where are my rounded corners? « Boagworld - "Sometimes we see confusion among our clients when they see their new site in their browser and it looks different to the design they signed off. In this fact-sheet we explain why accepting these differences has many benefits and doing so outweighs the limited drawbacks."Tags: BlogPost; Web; Design; Tips;

04/13/11

Maqetta - "Maqetta is an open source project that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces. The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plugins or downloads."Tags: HTML5; Design; Tools;

Designing For The Future Web - Smashing Magazine - "If a single consistent experience is our goal, this begs the question, should we create a mobile website that scales up or a desktop website that degrades? The answer is neither. We should try to create a single design that can be used across all devices without alteration. But in practice, at least for the moment, we should start with the simplest website and work up."Tags: BlogPost; Web; Design; MobileDevices;

What the Heck is Shadow DOM? « Dimitri Glazkov - If you're building a library of rich UI widgets out of HTML components you might want to encapsulate all that complexity so that users of your widgets only have to deal with a single element, this is called shadow DOM and the public-webapps group is currently discussing how to make this available to scripts.Tags: BlogPost; JavaScript; RIA;

01/02/11

HTML Lint - Your code may validate, but in the HTML5 world that doesn't mean as much as it used to. This tool lets you check HTML5 to similar levels of conformance as XHTML validation.Tags: HTML5; Tools;

MS Excel: Delete all hyperlinks on a sheet in Excel 2003/XP/2000/97 - At work I sometimes use Excel as a sort of hand driven screen scraper to get tables of data off a web page and into a useful format, one issue with this is that the resulting data is littered with hyperlinks which are a pain to remove manually. This is the most straightforward way I found to get rid of them all, works in Excel 2007 too.Tags: MicrosoftExcel; Tips;

h5Validate | jQuery Plugins - A jQuery plugin that understands HTML5 forms and knows how to validate them based on new input attributes such as "required" and "pattern", even in browsers that don't yet support HTML5.Tags: jQuery; HTML5; Utility;